As I struggle to surface early on a Sunday morning to prepare for my live radio appearance, my wife will open one bleary eye, look across and say, "You've got a good face for radio," then fall back asleep.
Money makes the world go round. And, as we have seen with the credit crunch and the global financial meltdown it precipitated, the money doesn't actually have to stop to plunge the world into a tailspin.
About a year ago I wrote a column for tribalfootball.com in which I stated my belief that Clint Dempsey, Jozy Altidore and Freddy Adu were among a select group of top tier U.S. based players who would soon be plying their trade in Europe.
